"Because the German people believed that submarine warfare could win the war, the government had no choice but to undertake it rather than offer peace."
I will take a wild guess why, here, before I get real facts, and say that the German free press, possibly influenced by large munitions and industrial interests, had something to do with the German people's erroneous belief.
POSTSCRIPT: See Professor Rudd's much better answer.
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